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GATE HINGE.

No; 605,420. Pa tented June 7, 189-8.

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OHN RHALDEMAN, 011 SPRINGFIELD, M ssouRI:

GATE-HINGE.-

SPECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,420, dated June 7, 1898.

Application filed se iembe'rzs, 1897. Serial No. 653,286. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that 1, JOHN R. I-IALDEMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Springfield, county of Greene, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement inGate-Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the means for hanging gates intended both to slide and to swingthat is to say, gates which slide on rollers that are journaled on a bar pivoted to a post, so that the gate may turn or swing with it to open or close the roadway. The chief feature of novelty is the manner of pivoting such gate-supporting pivot-bar, whereby a certain operation results and an important advantage is attained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a gate supported by my improved hanger. Fig. 2 is a face or front view of my improved hanger. Figs. 3 and 4 are cross-sections on lines3 3 and 4 4, respectively, of Fig. 2. 3 Fig. 5 is a side view of my improved hanger. I

The gate proper is shown constructed in a well-known manner of horizontal bars, end bars 2, and diagonal and vertical braces 3 4. It is supported and slides on flanged rollers 5, which are journaled on theface of a vertical bar 6, pivoted to a post 7, as shown. The details of this construction and combination of parts are as follows:

The gate-supporting and pivot-bar or hanger 6 has a right-angular flange 8, Fig. 5, at each end, the two flanges being parallel and projecting from the inner side of the bar. Each flange 8 is perforated vertically; but, as will be noted in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, the perforations are located diagonally in reference to each other, one being near one side edge of the upper flange 8 and the other near the opposite side edge of the lower-flange 6. These perforations are for reception of the pintles of the hooks or hinges 9 9, the upper one point- To operate the gate, its latch 10 is released from the post 11, and then the gateis pushed back on the rollers 5 until it balances there-on, when it may be easily swungopen. In such sliding operation, as well asin the reverse'or closing movement, the bar 6 isprevented, by reason of the diagonal arrangement of its pivots 9 9, from turning, so as toi throw the rollers 5 out of parallelismwith the gate-bars 1 and cause their flanges to engage with or bite on the edges of the bars that run on them. In other words, the arrangement ofthe pivots 9 9 prevents the bar 6 from swinging by mere friction of the gate-bars 1 with the rollers 5 as the gate is slid back and forth.

That I claim is-- i 1. The combination of the gate proper, having longitudinal guide-bars, with a vertical supporting pivot-bar or hanger, which is provided with parallel horizontal flanges having perforations arranged at diagonally opposite points, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The gate-supporting pivot-bar or hanger arranged vertically in a suitable fixed support, and having parallel, horizontal flanges provided'with perforations arranged in (hag-- onal relation, asshown and described for the purpose specified.

JOHN R.- I-IALDEMAN.

Witnesses:

A. MARZETTI, J. E. LAURENCE. 

